The Aesop for Children, The Quack Toad, sentence 5
"Mr. Toad," he said, "I've been told that you cure anything!
Who acts: Toad, you · What happens: say, tell, cure · To what, where: Toad, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Quack Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toad, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Toad | punct |
| 2 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Toad | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Toad | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Toad | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 told | aux:pass |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 cure | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 cure | nsubj |
| 16 | cure | cure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | ccomp |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 cure | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Toad Mr. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Toad Mr. = toad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cure in a quote | present | you | anything | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer anything=Source |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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